Len Brown wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I know that the various versions of the viewer are derived from > Linden Lab releasing the viewer source code as open source, but what > about the server side of things? > > Is what we now call OpenSim the result of taking what we know about > the viewer and working backwards to how we presume the server pushes the > information to it? This would be my guess. > > I don't ever recall there being any releases of the early server > source code ever made available. This thought hit me when I started > wondering how Open Simulator originated if the Linden Lab server source > was never made publicly available. > > The Open Simulator site dist directory goes back to OpenSim 0.4 so > I'm a bit mystified. I started messing with OpenSim at version 0.6 and on. > > Thanks for any info offered on this topic. I've been active in > Second Life since December 2003 and am just wanting to flesh out a bit > of the historical side of things, when it comes to OpenSim beginnings.
Len, have you seen this OpenSim history wiki page? http://opensimulator.org/wiki/History If you dig up any extra information it would be very welcome on there too. -- Justin Clark-Casey (justincc) http://justincc.org http://twitter.com/justincc _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
